Extortionists shoot shop employee
Staff Correspondent
Armed extortionists shot at a shop employee in the city's Kathalbagan area while muggers stabbed a plastic goods wholesaler at Shyamoli yesterday.The injured, Fazlul Haque, 45, an employee of a scrap materials shop at Kathalbagan, and Hazi Ahmed Hossain, 35, a plastic trader of Chawkbazar, were undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Fazlul told reporters at the DMCH that two youths came to the shop at 8:15am and looked for the owner Joynal Abedin Khandakar. On not finding him, they demanded toll from him. "As I told them that the owner did not leave any money for them, one of the youths shot me twice in the right leg," Fazlul said. In another incident, four criminals waylaid a rickshaw carrying Ahmed Hossain near Shyamoli cinema at about 9:30am and stabbed him twice in the throat and neck. The criminals left the place hurriedly as Ahmed cried for help. Police suspected that the criminals meant to mug him. Police could not arrest anyone as of 7:00pm.
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